Georgia's Democratic congressman David Scott has died at age 80. Scott was the first Black chairman of the House Agriculture Committee and was seeking his 13th term in Congress despite challenges from within his party.
12 terms sounds ridiculous, but they’re only 2 year terms. That’s far too short, and only keeps every Congressional Rep in constant reelection mode. No wonder Congress does such a crappy job, they’re always raising money, and/or campaigning.
They should have a 4 year term, with 50% being elected in the Midterms and the Presidential elections.
Eh, I get what you’re saying, but term limits aren’t a prerequisite for democracies.
The problem was neoliberals ran the party for generations and would blackmailblackball anyone that worked on a primary against a neoliberal incumbent.
Even to the point they were robbing state parties and threatening to cut entire state parties off of their reps didn’t toe the line.
That’s over, it’s been over for a year.
Even if the current DNC chair did a 180 as I’m typing this, he’s been dumping all the money stolen via the Victory Fund back on state parties. The DNC couldn’t use the old threats if they wanted to.
Without that pressure from the top, progressives will replace neoliberal and republican incumbents.
And if a progressive gets thru the presidential primary and into the Oval, then they get to name the next DNC president.
That’s what pisses me off the most these days…
I spent decades trying to convince people the DNC was a problem. And as soon as the voting members fixed it, everyone started to realize how bad it was, but not that it’s been fixed.
I don’t understand how people keep falling for billionaire propaganda.
Like there’s a shadowy cabal of hooded billionaires saying “the people have started to vote for Bernie Sanders - we must lobby to reduce education spending so that in 15-20 years people will make worse decisions” <evil laughter ensues>
Like there’s not a possibility for imperialistic capitalist democracies to develop an autopoietic culture/spectacle for producing the exact same effect as you describe, distributed and self perpetuating, without any sort of need for shadowy cabals. Like the selfish greed of hundreds/thousands of billionaires enabled by a leaky political system don’t add up to the same shit, just more powerful and less conspiratorial.
I wish there was a shadowy guy in the background. That would make it pretty easy to point my finger and say, “hey, THATS HIM!!!” But unfortunately, that’s not the case.
It’s not one shadowy guy in the background. It’s Stephen Miller, Roger Stone, Steve Bannon, Roger Ailes, and Rupert Murdoch, literally standing right next to Donald Trump.
No functioning democracy allows their representatives to sit for twelve terms.
12 terms sounds ridiculous, but they’re only 2 year terms. That’s far too short, and only keeps every Congressional Rep in constant reelection mode. No wonder Congress does such a crappy job, they’re always raising money, and/or campaigning.
They should have a 4 year term, with 50% being elected in the Midterms and the Presidential elections.
Changing all of the term limits and age restrictions needs to be a priority. Keeping zombies in power does no one any good.
Eh, I get what you’re saying, but term limits aren’t a prerequisite for democracies.
The problem was neoliberals ran the party for generations and would
blackmailblackball anyone that worked on a primary against a neoliberal incumbent.Even to the point they were robbing state parties and threatening to cut entire state parties off of their reps didn’t toe the line.
That’s over, it’s been over for a year.
Even if the current DNC chair did a 180 as I’m typing this, he’s been dumping all the money stolen via the Victory Fund back on state parties. The DNC couldn’t use the old threats if they wanted to.
Without that pressure from the top, progressives will replace neoliberal and republican incumbents.
And if a progressive gets thru the presidential primary and into the Oval, then they get to name the next DNC president.
That’s what pisses me off the most these days…
I spent decades trying to convince people the DNC was a problem. And as soon as the voting members fixed it, everyone started to realize how bad it was, but not that it’s been fixed.
I don’t understand how people keep falling for billionaire propaganda.
The propaganda is effective, people are stupid, and education is intentionally poor to keep it that way.
This is such a stupid take. 🤣
Like there’s a shadowy cabal of hooded billionaires saying “the people have started to vote for Bernie Sanders - we must lobby to reduce education spending so that in 15-20 years people will make worse decisions” <evil laughter ensues>
That is such a stupid take.
Like there’s not a possibility for imperialistic capitalist democracies to develop an autopoietic culture/spectacle for producing the exact same effect as you describe, distributed and self perpetuating, without any sort of need for shadowy cabals. Like the selfish greed of hundreds/thousands of billionaires enabled by a leaky political system don’t add up to the same shit, just more powerful and less conspiratorial.
I wish there was a shadowy guy in the background. That would make it pretty easy to point my finger and say, “hey, THATS HIM!!!” But unfortunately, that’s not the case.
It’s not one shadowy guy in the background. It’s Stephen Miller, Roger Stone, Steve Bannon, Roger Ailes, and Rupert Murdoch, literally standing right next to Donald Trump.